availability of a variety of lipids and to accommodate different types of antigens/immunomodulators [2,6]. While liposomes have initially reached the market as drug carriers, their potential as potent vaccine adjuvants has been demonstrated against several diseases such as HIV [7] tuberculosis [8], malaria [9] and leishmaniosis [10] indicating that liposomal systems have promising future as vac...

Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 1000e114 Trop Med Surg ISSN: 2329-9088 TPMS, an open access journal Despite zoonotic leishmaniasis is considered as a public health problem worldwide, it is one of the most neglected diseases [1,2]. This disease is identified by an annual incidence of about 2 million cases and a prevalence of 12 million cases globally [3]. Leishmaniasis is the third most important vector-bo...

background: we aimed to assess the impact of health workers’ training program on preventive behaviors of leishmaniosis based on basnef (belief, attitude, subjective norm, and enabling factors) model in the families under the coverage of health centers. methods: the study was done in rural health centers of marvdasht city, fars province, iran in 2011. health workers completed a specific question...

Clinical manifestations of leishmaniasis are diverse and related to the infecting species, its relationship with the environment and the host immune response. A case of late Andean cutaneous leishmaniasis with extensive manifestation is presented. The case was confirmed through microbiological and immunological studies; identification was performed by cytochrome b gene sequencing and the specie...